After a day of rain, it feels like September in the mountains!  This could be because... it is September.... but what you have to understand about Georgia is that September frequently feels like June.  May occasionally feels like September, and December might feel like April and it also might feel like Antartica.

This is why October is my favorite ( Read more... )

Waging cruel war on the to-do list this week.  Planning meetings, printing, producing and proofing files, inventory, organizing the fall show, lesson plans, cleaning and photographing tack to SELL, deadlines vanquished, camp videos DONE, camp photos online, farrier lined up, HUZZAH.

Who knew that in the absence of camp, school, books to urgently ( Read more... )

Every year I remember:

I love performing.
I should do it more often.

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Ahem.
The microphone, please:


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It's a good thing I'm not superstitious or anything....

'cause the check I just wrote to pay my college application fee?  #666.
O_o

The truth is that I'm singing hallelujah because I finally have all the right paperwork in the same place, and should be able to get everything DONE and over with to start in August.  Also, my proof copy manuscript was ( Read more... )

Today by the numbers:

Number of truckloads of stuff hauled off to new barn/garage: 10... I think?
Number of boxes packed so far: approximately a trillion
Number of boxes to go: infinite
Number of books/movies/magazines/pictures dusted and given away for free: see above
Number of scary rat nests discovered: 3

Number of lessons taught today: 4
Number of ( Read more... )

Busybusybusy and I hate the Coosawattee River Resort right now, oh yes I do.

As I'm gearing up for the next thirty days of craziness, I find it's helpful to remind myself of the good things I HAVE accomplished this year that have NOT been derailed by a four-story waterslide.  One of the things I'm happiest about is a program I thought up more than ( Read more... )

I have been a lazy bum about updating Livejournal.

Life has been full of lots of other things!  In the past two weeks, I have:

• Gone to Alabama for three days to visit with family and, finally, celebrate Christmas and the multitude of winter birthdays.  It was good to go, since I hadn't been since last March, but in some ways also very hard.
• Written 6k ( Read more... )

Almost one week of 2010 in the books and here's it looks so far:

Best Movie of the Week: 500 Days of Summer
I started watching this much too late at night and then of course had to stay up to finish it... so much for any resolutions involving early bedtime!  But I LOVED this movie!  It was cute and quirky and a good love story in spite of NOT being a ( Read more... )

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